Elias Will Play Guitar in the Elimination Chamber Pod – If WWE Lets Him

Want to walk with Elias at WWE’s “Elimination Chamber” pay-per-view? We asked the wrestler, who will have some time to kill during Sunday’s main event, if he plans to perform live music while the six earlier entrants go at it.
“I would love to do a performance in the Elimination Chamber, but I have no idea what I am walking into yet,” Elias (real name Jeffrey Logan Sciullo) told TheWrap. “The way [WWE] goes is kind of day-to-day, and you show up and you kind of make the best of what you’ve got.”
Elias is the freshest face of the seven dudes throwing down in the titular gauntlet this weekend. As the final man to enter the ring Sunday, the recent NXT grad will have plenty of downtime standing idly by in his personal pod, watching John Cena, Roman Reigns, Braun Strowman, Finn Balor, Seth Rollins and Intercontinental Champion The Miz grapple in the squared circle.
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Give The Drifter his guitar, Vince McMahon!
“I don’t know yet, man,” Elias said when we asked if he plans to strum and sing on the sidelines. “If that’s the case — if I have my guitar and I’m able to do my songs, I absolutely will create a few songs for the Chamber.”
For now, the burly musician is focused on tonight’s “Raw.” After all, Monday marks a big setup night for Elias, whose brief main roster run to-date has included some excellent work with the aforementioned Cena.
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While we were talking original music, this reporter asked Elias about the depths of his WWE Superstar-focused ditties. As Sciullo is a “heel” (the industry’s term for a “bad guy”), it’s his character’s job to get “heat” (a negative audience reaction). Elias does such a good job generating such a response, he ordinarily can’t get more than a few bars of his song out. That doesn’t mean he only plans a few lines, however.
“I always have a full song prepared, because I cannot bank on the crowd booing anything,” Elias said. “I could go out there and tell them to shut their mouths and listen to my song, there’s always a chance they could shut their mouths and listen to my song.”
Usually those boos come fast and furious, however, and Elias is able to save some unused punchlines for his next run-in with a foe.
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In WWE, when one brings a prop to the ring, they tend to use it (or opponents use it against them). Elias told us he’s lost count on how many six-strings he’s smashed and had smashed on him. Fortunately, the former Elias Sampson isn’t the one footing the Guitar Center bill.
“When you’re at the level that I’m at — at ‘Monday Night Raw’ — you don’t gotta worry about things like that,” he told us.
Catch Elias tonight on USA Network’s “Raw,” which airs at 8/7c. The “Elimination Chamber” PPV is set for a Sunday at 8 p.m. ET start on WWE Network — a pre-show begins one hour earlier.

Pro-wrestling title belts change hands (or waists) like grapplers change trunks these days, though it wasn’t always that way. With “Survivor Series” just around the corner featuring a card of Champion vs. Champion matches, TheWrap decided to grace the Internet with a little history lesson. Scroll through our gallery to see every WWE Champion ever, ranked by their numbers of title reigns.
Remember: this is a list of those who won the WWWF Championship, the WWF Championship or the WWE Championship. So don’t come after us, Universal Champions, et al.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: Jeff Hardy # of Reigns: 1
The un-“Broken” half of the Hardy Boyz has had the more storied singles career.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: Bray Wyatt # of Reigns: 1
Abigail’s brother used to go by “Husky Harris” — we’d say this run is working out better for him.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: Eddie Guerrero # of Reigns: 1
Generally considered one of the best ever to have done it held the big-boy belt for 133.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: The Miz # of Reigns: 1
The kid from “The Real World” made good on his over-the-top MTV promos. One of the best on the mic, Miz has been holding down the Intercontinental Championship more than any other Superstar of the past few years.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: Jinder Mahal # of Reigns: 1
Shortly before this publishing, the “Modern-Day Maharaja” dropped the title to A.J. Styles, ending a somewhat confusing run right before the WWE went to India.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: John “Bradshaw” Layfield # of Reigns: 1
JBL has taken his heel persona from the ring to the announce table. Never without a cowboy hat, Layfield thankfully leaves his lariat clothesline at home.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: The Ultimate Warrior# of Reigns: 1
The muscle-bound maniac who handed Hulk Hogan his first-ever “WrestleMania” loss died after suffering a heart attack three days after being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: Pedro Morales # of Reigns: 1
History lesson: Back in the WWWF days, Morales became the first guy in wrestling history to win all three of the major men’s titles — the WWF Championship, the Intercontinental Championship and the WWF Tag Team Championship — in the company.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: André the Giant # of Reigns: 1
The stories about André the Giant sometimes feel as tall as he was.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: The Iron Sheik # of Reigns: 1
This guy is as big a hit on Twitter as he was in the ring.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: Kane # of Reigns: 1
You wouldn’t know it by looking at him, but Kane is one of the smartest Superstars in WWE history.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: Rey Mysterio # of Reigns: 1
We’re not going to talk about how ridiculous the setup to his finishing move, “The 6-1-9,” became. This is a happy list.
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Rank: 29 (tie) Wrestler: Rob Van Dam # of Reigns: 1
One of the most popular ECW wrestlers of all-time, RVD has brought his three initials to seemingly every pro-wrestling promotion with three initials.
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Rank: 16 (tie) Wrestler: Bob Backlund # of Reigns: 2
Backlund couldn’t “Make Darren Young Great Again” — or even keep the guy employed — but the master of the cross-face chicken wing had a pretty incredible career of his own.
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Who’s next — err, NXT? Will it be current WWE “SmackDown Live” Superstar Shinsuke Nakamura? (Probably.) Or how about newbies Tye Dillinger or Bobby Roode?
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Pro-wrestling title belts change hands (or waists) like grapplers change trunks these days, though it wasn’t always that way. With “Survivor Series” just around the corner featuring a card of Champion vs. Champion matches, TheWrap decided to grace the Internet with a little history lesson. Scroll through our gallery to see every WWE Champion ever, ranked by their numbers of title reigns.
Remember: this is a list of those who won the WWWF Championship, the WWF Championship or the WWE Championship. So don’t come after us, Universal Champions, et al.
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